TH622

Tourism Contemporary Topics

TH622 - Topik Kontemporer Pariwisata
Course ID
TH622
Credit
2 credits

The course “Contemporary Tourism Topics” aims to build a deep understanding of students in recognizing contemporary tourism issues both on a Domestic and Global scale.

Provided by the KU Institute of Education, this program is available by distance learning, allowing you to study flexibly while balancing work and personal lives.

The MSc Finance (EG. Banking) deepens your understanding of banks and financial markets, and how they relate to performance. It will help you to advance your career in finance and policy.

  • Have a broad and deep understanding of various issues in the tourism sector.
  • Analyze opportunities and barriers related to current phenomena and issues in the tourism industry.
  • Identify and analyze the influence and relationship between social, economic, cultural, political, technological progress, and socio-demographic conditions of society on issues that develop in the Tourism Sector
  • Synthesize students' personal ideas and perspectives on issues that develop in the tourism sector.
Topik Kontemporer Pariwisata

The Contemporary Tourism Topic Course is an elective course that can be chosen by students of the Master of Tourism study program at the Indonesian University of Education. Course information can be downloaded at the following link.

An interactive learning approach is used in this lecture with students as the main actors in class discussions. Illustrations and case studies related to tourism issues are the main material for discussion in lectures. In this course, an independent learning approach is also adopted to deepen students' understanding of related topics.

Reading requirements

Students are expected to actively explore lecture topics by reading news, opinion articles, chapter books, and academic articles related to the topic of discussion.

Syllabus

Provided by the KU Institute of Education, this program is available by distance learning, allowing you to study flexibly while balancing work and personal lives.

The MSc Finance (EG. Banking) deepens your understanding of banks and financial markets, and how they relate to performance. It will help you to advance your career in finance and policy.


Crises management in Tourism

Smart Tourism

Literary and Film Induced Tourism

Dichotomy of Indonesian Tourism Education

Halal and Islamic Tourism

Rural Tourism

Virtual Tour and Digital Tourism

Gastronomy Tourism: Healthy and Organic Foods

Waste Management

Learning methods

Provided by the KU Institute of Education, this program is available by distance learning, allowing you to study flexibly while balancing work and personal lives.

The MSc Finance (EG. Banking) deepens your understanding of banks and financial markets, and how they relate to performance. It will help you to advance your career in finance and policy.

Banking

Economic Policy

Financial Sector Management

Quantitative Finance

Assessment Method

Assessment in this course is based on four elements of assessment, namely Independent Assignments, Group Assignments, Final Projects, and Substantive Contributions. The details for each element are as follows:

  1. Independent Duty (0%)

Popular articles 750 – 1000 words related to Contemporary Tourism Topics. The theme or topic raised must have Central Thesis good and up-to-date. Articles are published in local mass media in the form of on line nor offline. Article republished in blog Master in Tourism. Article writing must include the author's status as a UPI Tourism Masters student.

  1. Group Assignments (0%)

Group presentations on current tourism topics. The topic raised must have Central Thesis good and up-to-date.

The topics that can be taken for Independent Tasks and Group Tasks are as follows:

  1. Ecotourism
  2. Youth Tourism
  3. Gender Studies in tourism
  4. Sexual Harassment in Tourism
  5. Sports Tourism
  6. Adventure Tourism
  7. Luxury Tourism
  8. Tourism for Family & Kids
  9. Accessible Tourism
  10. Dark Tourism
  11. Indigenous Tourism
  12. Eco travel: zero leftovers
  13. Accessories: Low-footprint trainers
  14. Augmented and Virtual Reality in tourism
  15. Digital Tourism
  16. Other contemporary topics
  17. Final Project (50%)

Essay Paper or Research Paper – 4000 words. The topic raised must have Central Thesis good and up-to-date. After the deadline for submitting the Final Project ends, articles insubmit in accredited national journals or international proceedings. The topic of this final project can be the completion of the draft article on the MK Philosophy of Science in the previous semester

Final Project Assessment

Final Project Assessment is based on the following criteria:

  1. Introduction:

Assessment is based on the student's ability to explain problem or phenomenon raised, elaborated state-of-the-art, and display significance from paper.

  1. Literature Review:

Assessment is based on students' ability to integrate and synthesize meaningful ideas through previous references. As for the assessment for literature reviews, consider the following elements:

  • Literature review the GOOD contains critics comprehensive literature, integrate various points of view, discuss and evaluate strengths and weaknesses of the literature, as well as raise the subject to be discussed and elaborated later.
  • For writing essay papers In this case, students need to read a sufficient amount of literature. Students are expected to read at least 20 literature related to the subject published in the last 5-10 years. Literature published more than 10 years ago, but considered important in discussions within essay need to be used as an additional reference.
  • At least 50% of referenced literature is scientific articles in referenced international journals.
  1. Integration:

Assessment related to content integration is based on students' ability to integrate concepts/theories from previous research with practice. A good article is able to explain connection between theory and practice, able to demonstrate meaningfulness, as well as being able to produce accurate conclusion.

  1. Plagiarism:

Articles that are indicated to be the result of plagiarism will be investigated in depth. If the student is proven to have committed plagiarism, then the student concerned is declared to have failed to complete the lecture, and must repeat the lecture in the following semester. The relevant subject is offered.

  1. Substantive Contribution (10%)

Students learn well through intensive discussions related to the topic. Assessment related to substantive contributions is based on the ability of students to take an active role in discussions, develop discussion topics, and be able to synthesize the meaning of the subject in the discussion process.

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